. Two days later, with Rice’s full backing, he tapped Ronald Klain, a trusted longtime aide to Vice President Joe Biden, to be the new full-time Ebola coordinator—tasked with, to put a fine point on it, making their shit tight.
More than perhaps any other crisis of her four-year tenure, her colleagues say, Ebola shows the qualities they admire in her: tenacity, passion, hard-won knowledge of how to work the creaky gears of federal power, an orientation toward action, an insistence on honesty from subordinates—and above all her bluntness.
Rice, like Obama, was no epidemiologist. But she did have a fingertip feel for Africa, having spent years wrestling with the region’s crises as a young aide on Bill Clinton’s NSC staff and then as a State Department appointee. The experience exposed her to harsh criticism;, the book that made Samantha Power famous, tells the story of Rice asking if using the term “genocide” to describe events in Rwanda would be politically unwise.
By July, Rice and her aides were growing alarmed at the reports from West Africa. There was no time, to use one of her common admonitions, to sit around “admiring the problem.” The NSC’s pace of activity on Ebola—meetings, briefings, memos—accelerated rapidly, but it was still getting organized. Led by Smith, federal agencies and departments had to hash out who would do what.
Left: A private plane arrives at Dobbins Air Reserve Base transporting a second American missionary stricken with Ebola, Aug. 5, 2014, in Marietta, Ga. Right: Ebola survivor Dr. Kent Brantly, center, the former medical director of Samaritan's Purse Ebola Care Center in Monrovia, Liberia, and his wife Amer, left, listen as Dr. Anthony Fauci, right, is questioned while testifying before a Senate hearing on Ebola, Sept. 16, 2014.
On Aug. 1, as the overall death toll from the outbreak reached 729, the director of the WHO admitted defeat. “This outbreak is moving faster than our efforts to control it,” she conceded. A week later, the WHO declared the Ebola outbreak a “public health emergency of international concern” and called for hundreds of millions of dollars in fresh aid.
The U.S. was now sending civilians into West Africa drip by drip—another USAID rapid-response team here; a few dozen more CDC experts there. The military agreed to send a mobile medical unit to Monrovia, but it was just 25 beds, and wouldn’t be operational until October. And none of it was enough. Frieden and Raj Shah, the USAID administrator, were at wit’s end.
POLITICOMag Mr. Biden’s dithering in VP selection is similar to DJT’s dithering Carona response. Americans deserve better. Time for a non dithering nominee!
my pick for vp
Her TV experience of Benghazi Muslim video lie is very damning. And she writes a CYA memo to 'clear up' confusion of an Obama investigation into the new administration 3 weeks after the meeting. anycharacter partybeforecountry ABC CNN washingtonpost nytimes foxnews NPR
Whomever JoeBiden chooses for his team, I know they will be competent people able to help us through this pandemic and other important issues..and not the entitlled yes-men RealDonaldTrump has put in charge of various agencies to do his bidding.
Yet another reason why Susan Rice is a wise choice ...
One God fact, less dems soon. What is truth is the wrath of God is pointed directly at Dems for sin they promote, the major being the abortion murder of 4000 babies a day by Hitleresk heinous serial killers. Life for life now God says so their will be many less Dems who vote.
Susan Rice got my vote for VP. Biden riding on the Obama-Biden legacy and need a loyal ally in Susan Rice. Rice will work hard to ensure a Biden Administration is successful.
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